linux-kernel - Re: [4.2] commit d59cfc09c32 (sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu

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Date:	Tue, 15 Sep 2015 15:05:50 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org >> Linux Kernel Mailing List" 
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [4.2] commit d59cfc09c32 (sched, cgroup: replace
 signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem) causes regression for
 libvirt/kvm

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 02:05:14PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> Tejun,
> 
> 
> commit d59cfc09c32a2ae31f1c3bc2983a0cd79afb3f14 (sched, cgroup: replace 
> signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem) causes some noticably
> hickups when starting several kvm guests (which libvirt will move into cgroups
> - each vcpu thread and each i/o thread)
> When you now start lots of guests in parallel on a bigger system (32CPUs with
> 2way smt in my case) the system is so busy that systemd runs into several timeouts
> like "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did
> not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply
> timeout expired, or the network connection was broken."
> 
> The problem seems to be that the newly used percpu_rwsem does a
> rcu_synchronize_sched_expedited for all write downs/ups.

Can you try:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git dev.2015.09.11ab

those include Oleg's rework of the percpu rwsem which should hopefully
improve things somewhat.

But yes, pounding a global lock on a big machine will always suck.
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